Zooming in on NGC 3603

Zooming in on NGC 3603, the cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula’s extended clouds of gas and dust. Located 22 000 light-years away from the Sun, it is the closest region of this kind known in our galaxy, providing astronomers with a local test bed for studying intense star formation processes, very common in other galaxies, but hard to observe in detail because of their large distance.

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ESO/A. Fujii/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Music by John Dyson.

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Identificazione:eso1005a
Data di pubblicazione:Mercoledì 03 Febbraio 2010 12:00
Notizie relative:eso1005
Durata:56 s
Frame rate:30 fps

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Categoria:Nebulae
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